On 3/8/06, John Zelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I know that at PyCon, Raymond Hettinger and others from Python_dev were discussing an "educational" package for Python. I suspect it will be easy to get buy-in and support from that group if we can get a list together of what we want in the package.
Anna
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 14:54, Brad Miller wrote:
> I just downloaded lightning and took it for a
> spin. Its really very nice. The simplicity of IDLE is one of the
> keys to the success of Python in our introductory CS courses. But
> students do have a bunch of trouble with IDLE on windows. I like
> the fact that the traceback pane pops up right under the editor pane
> when you run a script and hit a problem.
>
> Regarding the 'batteries'. What if we, as a community of educators
> using python, did something like the Enthought or MacEnthon people
> and created our own 'batteries included' distribution of Python.
> Students and other interested parties would have one stop shopping to
> get all the Python they needed to use python for learning computer
> science. What packages would we include?
>
This is an interesting question. I think this idea of an educational
distribution has been kicked around before. For those of us in the Linux
world, installation of the major non-standard tools is pretty simple. I can
just apt-get install the vast majority. For students with Windows or OSX,
it's not as simple. I wonder of the cheeseshop and ez-install tools will
eventually make it all pretty easy regardless of platform.
I know that at PyCon, Raymond Hettinger and others from Python_dev were discussing an "educational" package for Python. I suspect it will be easy to get buy-in and support from that group if we can get a list together of what we want in the package.
Anna
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